Category: Federal Enforcement

The number of times federal immigration authorities detained pregnant migrant women jumped 80% the year after President Donald Trump’s administration ended a policy against detaining pregnant migrants, according to a new government watchdog report. The report by the Government Accountability…

Senior U.S. District Court Judge John Kane ruled that the U.S. Department of Justice must give Colorado its 2018 Edward Byrne Justice Assistance Grant that was withheld. A federal judge has sided with Colorado in a dispute with the Trump…

For weeks, as the coronavirus spread rapidly, Jose Hernandez Velasquez worried about the dangers of being detained inside the Adelanto ICE Processing Center 80 miles east of Los Angeles. The 19-year-old Guatemalan immigrant listened uneasily as other men called their…

An immigrant being held at a facility in New Jersey has become the first Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainee to test positive for the coronavirus in the US, an agency official confirmed. The 31-year-old Mexican detainee has been held at…

After fleeing Cuba and crossing into the United States last year, Arlet Victoria Remón Pérez has spent more than nine months in a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Jena, Louisiana. In that time, she’s become familiar with…

The head of the US refugee agency that oversees the care of thousands of unaccompanied immigrant children in government custody has been replaced, according to an internal email obtained by BuzzFeed News. The Office of Refugee Resettlement, which is housed within…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Inmates at all 122 federal correctional facilities across the country will no longer be allowed visits from family, friends or attorneys for the next 30 days, in response to the threat of the coronavirus, officials told The…

The United States has pursued aggressive increases in immigration enforcement over the past two decades across several presidencies. Congress has allocated increasing resources during this period. Now, our immigration enforcement agencies have more funding than at any point in history.…

Gwinnett County Sheriff Butch Conway has renewed a controversial federal immigration program that seeks to detain and deport undocumented immigrants.The county partners with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on the program, known as 287(g). The agreement was due to expire…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has reported more than 400 confirmed and presumptive positive cases of the coronavirus in the United States, and likely many more are as yet unconfirmed. In response, public health officials are advising…